The most expensive streets in the country

A new report reveals the most expensive streets in the country  and how their prices just keep on rising

The price difference between Britain’s most expensive streets and the rest of the housing market is growing, as “clusters of exclusivity” emerge across the country, a new survey released last week reveals.

The report, by Mouseprice.net, using Land Registry data to analyse property values street by street, named Courtenay Avenue, in Hampstead, north London, as the most expensive, with average prices of £6.8m  up on the £5.5m recorded by Kensington Avenue last year. Elsewhere, from Hale in Cheshire to Harpenden, Hertfordshire, the top addresses are pulling away from the rest of the market.

“Geography doesn’t matter in the same way it used to,” says Selwyn Lim, director of Mouseprice. “The rate of growth for a luxury townhouse in Chelsea will have more in common with a mansion in Hale, a few hundred miles away, than one a few hundred metres away. It is all about exclusivity. These tiny clusters command